Sports Is a Luxury
EDITOR’S MONOLOGUE: 1 BONE FRACTURE, MUSCLE TEAR, I’M STILL A WHOLE. SPORT AS IDENTITY 2 by JOSEPH TANG LIFE AS AN EXCHANGE STUDENT – 3 A CASUAL RUNNER’S PERSPECTIVE by SARA GHAZIE RESPECT. SERIOUSLY? 4 by XIAO MING WEE [UNTITLED] 5 by f.z . Sports is a luxury. The Olympics is a worldwide showcase of health, wealth and fertility; some are strong, not only economically and politically but also physically. Every 4 years, the Olympics reminds us not to mess with the big brothers. Markedly, Olympic Rankings 2012: (1) United States (6) Germany (2) China (7) France (3) Great Britain (8) Italy (4) Russia (9) Hungary (5) Korea (10) Australia5 After the Olympics, next up: the English Premier League. Barbaric but gentleman. Etiquettes, manners; advocated to create docile players: confine cultural baggage (subsumption of difference?): sharpen EDITOR’S proprioception (Focus! Focus!). Your body, our army, MONOLOGUE a script on spatial tactics. You here, and you, there. Obedience, Xiao Ming Wee recalls,6 for respect, for the rules of the game (and the game of the rules?). Tenacity. Perspiration. Your effort you will be dumbfounded. f.z. believes, sports could save the world.7 Universality (or universalising?), a deception perhaps needed at times of urgency. I’m still a whole, but a mendacious creature, learning to procrastinate, to reserve energy – my body, a signifier Sports, inspire, transpire. to many of your nationalist rubbish! God bless the Perspire. In Sanity: Linsanity.1 analgesics but I prefer death to lassitude. —TZH Mapping: the “we” in “me”; vice versa. Overt nationalism, covert individualism (how did David fight Goliath?); his spirit outdoes his body Notes: — the apogee of Cartesian disease.
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